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Be that as it may, University of Southern California historian and anthropologist Peter C. Mancall writes "like the needle of a compass, Henry Hudson was always attracted to the North … one of the most intrepid and important explorers of his age."

Mr. Mancall writes with authority in tone and scholarship (offering 70 pages of fine-print backmatter) but commits surprising gaffes, e.g., wrongly defining shrouds as "the rope rigging that held the sails to the mast" (rather than ropes that support the mast).